Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you have doubts, check it out–go directly to your account or to the source, which you should always independently verify, if the communication refers to anything service or finance related. You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The goal is to write down all of the accounts/addresses/phone numbers that come to mind, as these are some of the top things that attackers will try to gather in their search. Your email address(es): This is the other main way to look up contacts on social media, and for most people it’s also the strongest common link between accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In a press release the company confirmed unauthorized access to customer online accounts. Neiman Marcus has also informed the affected customers, and forced an online account password reset for affected customers who haven’t changed their password since May 2020. According to the press release 4.6

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2023

Grimes has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 30 years, authoring 13 books and more than 1,300 articles. The most common root causes for initial breaches stem from social engineering and unpatched software, as those account for more than 90% of phishing attacks. What is phishing?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

Security programs must shoulder accountability for setting employees in different roles up for success. Embrace Learning Management Systems That Enable Microlearning and Self-Service. Effective learning management systems are available that take into account the human attention span. Think about password management.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Are they already firing out tweets, chatting in Discord channels, or even just looking to set up a Tik-Tok account? Find your friends (in other words, import your address book and make connections between email addresses and social media profiles). They may already have email addresses and various social media accounts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. A flaw in LastPass password manager leaks credentials from previous site. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. Once again thank you!

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and services. A long time coming.

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Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As we mentioned in the previous part, there are six major data types; credit card and payment information, credentials of accounts, government secrets, personally identifiable information (PII), corporate intellectual Property (IP), and critical infrastructure data. The second scenario is about account credentials.

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Errata Security

APRIL 1, 2020

Now is a good time to remind people to stop using the same password everywhere and to visit [link] to view all the accounts where they've had their password stolen. Using the same password everywhere is the #1 vulnerability the average person is exposed to, and is a possible problem here. Or your bank account.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass. ”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. When writing the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document all the steps that you would need to become invisible online. There are a lot. It's crazy.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

According to the recent reports, the passwords evaluated for the 2014 list were mostly held by users of North America and Western Europe. In 2014, millions of passwords from Russian accounts were also leaked, but these passwords were not included in the analysis. They are too weak and easy to be hacked.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

In other words, dynamic passwords are changeable static passwords. Dynamic passwords need to be securely managed. Online and offline password managers come into play here. However, password managers introduce the problem of risk concentration, or putting all of one’s eggs in a single basket.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

From an optional password manager feature in Safari that looks out for saved passwords involved in data breaches to new digital security for car keys on Apple Watches and the iPhone, the security sweep appears to be comprehensive. Adware accounted for another 22 percent.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

” The DNS part of that moniker refers to the global “ D omain N ame S ystem ,” which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. Review accounts with registrars and other providers.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

Use unique, strong passwords, and store them in a password manager. Many people get hacked from having guessable or previously compromised passwords. Good passwords are long, random, and unique to each account, which means it’s impossible for a human to manage them on their own.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2023

Riccardi: My book discusses how the perception of cyberattacks shifted from being mere data breaches to having real-world consequences, especially after high-profile cases in 2021, like Colonial Pipeline and Schreiber Foods. LW: You discuss password management and MFA; how big a bang for the buck is adopting best practices in these areas?

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

If you have a bunch of passwords and manually checking them all would be painful, give this a go: If you use 1Password account you now have a brand new Watchtower integrated with @haveibeenpwned API. Also, looks like I have to update some passwords ?? Thank you, @troyhunt ?? In this case, it's almost 2.7

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

Why It Makes Sense to Partner with a Password Manager Now. I could have said "go and get a password manager", but this is barely any better as it doesn't lead them by the hand to a good one! I spent a few hours manually updating all passwords to all sites. they need more. Thanks for all your work!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For about two years’ worth of evenings, I read all the CISSP books I could get my hands on. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books. I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. I took a week off before the test to spend all day in a last push. I was so happy when I passed.

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Webroot

JUNE 25, 2021

This is not a strong password. Pet’s names, children’s names and birthdays are often easily discoverable, especially by mining social media accounts. Passwords vs. Passphrases. A password is a short character set of mixed digits. Using a password manger is the most practical way for making passwords more secure.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 8, 2020

Most home networks get broken into through either phishing or some random device they have with a bad password. It’s usually a password that was never configured or never changed from the default. Use a password manager to make and store good passwords that are different for every account/device.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Protect the credentials to these systems in a password manager or credential vault (such as Azure Key Vault or AWS Secrets Manager). Likewise, keep your credentials for your cloud backup solutions in your key vault, not in some password file on your IT share. Force MFA on all interactive accounts.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

I've been either lucky or fortunate to spend just over 20 years in the identity and access management space just through luck and chance and, and booked with industry in different software vendors and such and it's been really fascinating to see things change in the identity space. He loves password managers.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. Thing was, the manager required its own password, which I had not entered; remember, I had hit only two keys. Wait, what?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s about how they started with a deliberately misconfigured version of CosmosDB and ended up with complete unrestricted access to the accounts and the databases of thousands of Microsoft Azure customers. Is it in my account? Is it in someone else's account? Actually, that’s not how it happened.

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